​This Awesome Beer Device Is Like a Kegerator, but For Growlers

Craft beer fans are all too familiar with the “growler problem”: Many local breweries don’t offer their seasonal beers in bottles or cans, just 64-ounce growlers. But shortly after you open your growler at home, the once-tasty beer inside loses its carbonation and goes flat, and becomes decidedly not tasty. In order for beer to stay good, it must be kept cold, in the dark, under pressure, and protected from oxygen. Unfortunately there hasn’t been a good way to keep your growlers cold and pressurized at home—until now: Enter the Growler Chill, a household countertap system that appears to be a godsend for beer lovers.

Here’s how it works: When you bring your growler home, you take the cap off, put the “Magic Tap” cap on, place the growler in the device’s unfortunately named “Virginator”—a system that purges the oxygen out of the head space of the growler and creates the same conditions that existed in the keg—and then invert the growler and slide it into the machine. By doing this, you draw the beer from the bottom of the growler to eliminate foam waste. The Growler Chill holds three standard growlers and keeps them cold, on tap and ready to serve, and fresh by extending the life of your beer for up to 3 weeks.

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